what do you think..am i being concerned by comment for no reason

Hintza

ribenagirl wrote: »

I state explicitly in auctions under £10 that I do NOT get a CoP, and if buyers want one they should ask me for one. The reason being, my local post office get narked if they have to stand there and do 15 CoPs for piddly amounts. I have never had a problem....yet! Although obviously it's my look out if anything does go wrong, but it's just a risk I'm prepared to take for a small sale.

(Anything of greater value I send recorded or SD).

I wouldn't worry - the buyer probably just thinks the CoP is for *their* benefit and not yours!

Why are you getting the PO to do them? You just need to pick up the cards fill in the name and addresses (max 10 per card) and they stamp it. Saves a lot ot time and potential hassle later on.

Moglex

ribenagirl wrote: »

The reason being, my local post office get narked if they have to stand there and do 15 CoPs for piddly amounts.

The denizens of your local PO should do the job they are paid to do. The attitude that because they have to do one thing a dozen times for one person is in some way a less valid use of their time than doing the same thing once each for twelve different people is out and out batty!

Having said that, Hintza's advice will save you a bit of time so it's a good, pragmatic solution.

frivolous_fay

I just ask for a receipt, then fill in the address details at the bottom

I don't subscribe to the view that pressing the receipt button is a major drain on PO resources.

wileycat

If you pay by card at the PO, you get 4 slots at the bottom of the card receipt for COP addresses.
Most the time I don't ask as it does take alot of extra time, even though they offer sometimes, but if the item is worth more than about £30 I will use a registered signiture service.

greeneye

I wouldn't be worried.
If a buyer is targetting sellers not using recorded delivery so they can claim non delivery they wouldn't be telling you to get a COP. If royal mail spot a large amount of COP claims for one address I'm sure their suspicions would be aroused.

Lorian

wileycat wrote: »

If you pay by card at the PO, you get 4 slots at the bottom of the card receipt for COP addresses.

You can get that even if you pay cash now. You haven't needed to do the manual COP for months in my post office.

As to soolin's query, If I'm buying from a dubvious seller* who ships with "no insurance" stated I always ask them to get COP, not becuase I want to see it, but becuase I want them to know I won't tolerate their failure to send. It's not about theperformance of the royal mail.

*of course I only do this with carefully calculated risk when the price is too good to miss (which doesn't happen so often nowadays!).

soolin

My point thopugh Lorian is that the COP is still meaningless. I never buy unless I can use paypal backed by a card, so a seller with dubious comments on his auction wouldn't massively concern me as I am covered anyway. If I didn't use paypal then I would avoid sellers with dubious terms as a COP is not going to help anyway as I can do very little to force them to give my money back in case of loss, nor can I insist they send me the COP.

A non paypal user is left to struggle with an ebay claim, and then the rules and regs are completely different to a paypal claim. Firstly if the seller can show he offered the buyer, and was refused insurance then the claim fails. Even if the claim does go ahead ebay keep £15 admin fee and only get back th eitem cost and not the p and p.

Forget COPs, pay by paypal backed by a card and let sellers worry about protecting themselves. As a seller I know the risks and I work as well as i can to minimise those for myself without inconveniencing the buyer in any way.

poppyolivia

If it is worrying you that much why not do recorded delivery just this once?

Moglex

poppyolivia wrote: »

If it is worrying you that much why not do recorded delivery just this once?

Not a good idea.

If you use recorded, not only does it cost extra but if anyone signs the receipt (including the postie or one of his friends) the RM will say: "We can't compensate you as we have 'proof' of delivery (yeah, right)).

Better to just get the COP so that the RM cannot use a bogus 'proof' as an excuse not to pay up.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Lorian wrote: »

You can get that even if you pay cash now. You haven't needed to do the manual COP for months in my post office.

As to soolin's query, If I'm buying from a dubvious seller* who ships with "no insurance" stated I always ask them to get COP, not becuase I want to see it, but becuase I want them to know I won't tolerate their failure to send. It's not about theperformance of the royal mail.

*of course I only do this with carefully calculated risk when the price is too good to miss (which doesn't happen so often nowadays!).

so does that mean that the buyer thinks i am a bit dodgy then ????????